Jaimee Motley Argillet Mondeuse Noire

Jaimee Motley moved from her family restaurant to San Francisco and began working at RN74. She fell in love with wine and started off working harvests before finally accepting a winemaker position at Wind Gap/Pax Cellars in 2015. She now joins the burgeoning group of winemakers that are making their own wines within Pax Cellars in Sebastopol.

These are her first releases, it is likely that subsequent offers will be on allocation such is the demand.

The fruit is from Santa Maria Valley. Planted in 1994 on sandy loam with a limestone wash from the hillside. Whole cluster fermentation and aged on the lees in neutral barrels for 11 months. The wine went through native primary and secondary fermentation and is unfiltered and unfined with under 20 ppm of total S02.

PRODUCER NOTES

Jaimee Motley moved from her family restaurant to San Francisco and began working at RN74. She fell in love with wine and started off working harvests before finally accepting a winemaker position at Wind Gap/Pax Cellars in 2015. She now joins the burgeoning group of winemakers that are making their own wines within Pax Cellars in Sebastopol.

These are her first releases, it is likely that subsequent offers will be on allocation such is the demand.

FARMING & WINEMAKING NOTES

The fruit is from Santa Maria Valley. Planted in 1994 on sandy loam with a limestone wash from the hillside. Whole cluster fermentation and aged on the lees in neutral barrels for 11 months. The wine went through native primary and secondary fermentation and is unfiltered and unfined with under 20 ppm of total S02.